Method and machine for making wire-glass.



,713- PATENTED OCT. 22, 1907.

A. SHUMAN.

METHOD AND MACHINE FOR MAKING WIRE GLASS.

R m N 2 SHEETSSHEET 1.

APPLIUATION FILED 11113.26, 19061 1% YYVESSES A YPATBVNTED 003122, 1907.

SHUMAN. METHOD AND MACHINE FDR MAKING WIRE GLASS.

APPLICATION FILED 1'33. 26, mos.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

INVENTOR s ww outrun srATns PATENT out un GLASS PRESS COZQIPANY, A

CORPORATION OF NEW JERS BY.

METHOD AND theorems-Fort MAKING wmE-eLAss.

we. oeuvre.

The object ol my invention is to provide a. methodand means for making wire glass in a simple and expeditious manner, and in which the wire netting will be wholly covered with glass and be definitely positinned. between the surfaces of the glass slieet.

In. carrying out my invention I employ the usual table, gun and flattening roller, and combine therewith a hollow guide plate for the wire netting, preferably curved, and adopted to be adjusted vertically to and from the table but with its lower guide edge continually in Contact with or very close to the suiiace oi the roller,

whereby it nat y be adjusted into contact with or main-- tained-very close to the molten glass being rolled and into which the wire netting is fed, and means for supplying the hollow guide plate with a cooling medium. In the operation of said mechanism, the rolling of the glass is done in the usual manner, but the wire netting is delivered directly into the glass at a short distance from the roller end is supported where it comes into first contact with the said. gloss and this support is adjusted downward about the surface oi the flattening roller to compensate for the gradual diminution in the body and height of the gloss mass.

My invention also comprehends details 01' construction which, together with the above features Will be better understood by reference to the drawings, in

Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional VlQW Oifu wire glass machine embodying my invention; and Fig. Zis a cross sectionci the same taken through the table and gun.

A is the table and is provided. with the usual trangs F, F, and racks l), E.

B is the usual iiattenine' roller which runs upon the trzuigs and is provided with gears D, D, meshing with l the racks of the table.

0 is the gun which rests upon the table and is propelled forward by the flattening roller.

The apparatus thus described is ndaptod for rolling a ball of glass 0 down into a sheet P.

To introduce the nieshod wire or netting, provide the following cmstruction. A curved hollow plate G is fitted to the forward and upperjpart of the curved surlace of the flattening roller B as shown ur'id this plate is Specification of Letters Patent. 7 Application filed February 26,1908. Serial N0. 302.911.

Patented Oct. 22, 1907.

kept cool by a cooling medium such as water which is admitted by pipe K to the hollow plate and escapes by pipe K Those pipes are arranged respectively upon the opposite sides of the curved plate G, so that the wa: ter is required to fiow throughout the interior of the plate. It is preferable that the water be forced into the plate G under pressure sullicient to prevent the general tion of steam within the curved hollow plate. This plate G is secured to a frame H which, in the form shown, is pivoted upon the shaft or axles b b of the flattoning roller ll so th at the plate G is, in effect, pivoted concentrically to the axis of the roller and its forward. and lower edge is maintained in contact with or very close to the surface of the roller at all times of its adjustment. This frame ll is provided at the rear with arms to which are journalcd. the guide rollers l, l, which run. upon the trangs 1* F and thereby insures to thehollow plate, a normally definite position with respect to the roller B, as shown in Fig. l and prevent abnormal rising of it. The iramo H is also provided with handles J J by which it may be oscillated to lowcr the hollow curved guide plate G to maintain it in contact with or very close'to the gradually diminishing ball of glass 0 during, the rolling operation. The thickness of the lower end of the curved plate (i is equal to approxinuttoly one half the thickness 01' the gloss to be rolled.

The wire netting L is guided through a hopper or frame M which may be arranged above the flattening roller and ndjustcd over the table to i'ollow the roller in any suitable nuuu 1; and a. tension may be put upon the netting by a. tension roller N which rests against. the descending netting l. and by its own weight or otherwise applies a. pressure against the said netting. The lo'wcrcnd of the netting L is guided over the hollow curved guide plutc G and thence into the body of the glass or: shown in Fig. l.

The operation will now be understood and is as iol lows: The molten glass is dumped upon the table in iront of the flattening roller, the wire netting is lowered so that its lower edge extends down into the glass, and the flattening roller is then advanced. The glass becomes rolled down. into a shoot I with the wire netting embedded in it shown. As the wire netting is supported away from the surface of the roller 15 by the thickness of the lower edge of the guide plate G, it is evident that the glass will. flow through the meshes thereof and cause the netting to be embedded or completely iuclosed in glass and at the proper distance iroin the roller B. This insures the netting being centrally located in the completed sheet P. By having the lower edge of the guide plate G in Contact with. or close to the molten glass, it is evident that it supports the nettiiuga until the glass has ed through the meshes. The lower edge of the plc G should either be in contact with or not more thou about one-eighth of an inch from 11 lently adapted ior the purposes f It is evident that While the plate G is shown. iil it" we lerred form as curved, it is not necessary that it she in:

curved, as the essential feaiure resides in having lower guide edge maintained so ho hold the netting all a, definite distance from the roller 13 W1 the glass and also in having capacity for downward Whihi maintaining the same i to the said roller.

While I prefer the construction shown as being er;

not confine myself to the details as of the invention.

Having now described my invent new and desire to secure by Letters Y 1. The method of making wire glass, rolling down a mass or molten glass (luring bilili operation fC-ldiiflg: into the upperl'he glass close to the roller :1 wire net @uifl Wire netting: away from lire roll it u poi to or in contact with llie glass where the will): it. and gradually lowering" lid support or ilw r as the mass of molten glass becomes redncl same time advancing'the support forward in a 21 direction \l'ith a speed equal to that of the roller, the molten glass is caused to flow l'lirougl': she Hi0 netting edjzxccnf to ifs support and ing presaure due to the roller and ml, :3 In a machine for n'mking wire glass, the of the table and iiill'tlnillll, roller, with :1 hello ranged in from: of aimi close ro llie roller guide face upon its: side most omnt l'roin the roover which the wire netting is guidmi ii v gill. being mechanically held ll\ 1y from the roller, for supplying the hollow guide Willi a (.Ufil iii J In 2 machine for making wire 7 of the Table and ll 1: 11 l: rung-2d in front of Llnu close to the rol er and eve zlic Wire melting is gu ded into 111 "*l mean for jns'ling the d hollow guide con about the for-v \rl'l surface of the roller Ii! a cecliln: medium 4 In. iimcliiue for [linking wire glu of the lalilc and llntlening roller, with ii ranged in front of and close to tile roller 2x1 o it enters n, 1 (lo these nay we mollii'ied in various Ways without departing from. the eel "no 21ml 1:10am

liy

e plate cu rind l iy ling-end have macl fie for rolling wire elk-r. in combination with in ill r, and

1y Lu ug the rolling into the glass, and means foradgulde eoncent c' vrurcl surface of the mile;

downward hollow water he frame so is to guide the capacity for vei'tic l adjustment.

, lzlze table and a frame pivoted eonflalztening roller, 21 llOiiOW WfitCi' cooled plate carried by the frumeeo as to giiiile the wire and nave capacity for verticzil udjiisrinent, and

v H! or very mncliin. roller, 1 ly with cop baeliwara for rollng for rolling wire combination with gins and

r us for guiding the netting to the guide consisting of Li hopper lii and tension roller N.

2:. machine ior rolling 'wlre glass, the table and rolloa; in combination with Home pivoted cenfirming roller and lowing rear guide '(lifxi'iOXl, and a hollow ate cerried 0;: the frame "o as to ty for vertical all lire table and :1. frame pivoted coueet to the roller and movable forward T wirenettin'g guide carried by the fame mlfront and upper surface oi the roller and.

'cely whereby it Hm}; be maintained infcenw so to the uoper surface of the melt ii is close le :ue roller during the rolling'op wire glass, tl combination with a pee? to the rel e upper surface 10:1 in contact with or vcry'c' esc to the upper.-

,l t e molten glass close to 1:

cooling medium 1 million fr'lorlimr Aime eilerduring the edge arranged nich invention, I hereunto set my J'UM A N.

"ltien. l

table andv ameplvo-ted con- 7 movable forward mg means to llmil: its TQG'IJCIIEC'ZHZ in one .ion only, urn: a Write: ceolcrl r-ame adjacent to the in) 

